U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy
will host a town hall meeting in Covington on Wednesday (May 31). The meeting will be from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the auditorium where the St. Tammany Parish School Board typically meets.

Cassidy, a Republican, endured a barrage of shout-downs during a
raucous town hall meeting in Metairie
in February. But a town hall meeting in Livingston Parish the day before the one in Metairie was much less chaotic.

Cassidy, who is a physician, has become a key player in the U.S. Senate on health care issues. He has been critical of the Obamacare replacement plan recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and has said he is working with Senate colleagues on an improved plan.

Notices of the Covington town hall meeting have shown up in mailboxes across St. Tammany Parish in recent days. The notice says "All are invited.''

The town hall will take place in the St. Tammany Parish school district's C.J. Schoen Administrative Complex at 321 N. Theard St., Covington.